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Mia Wong

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6336 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

Hey, this is Mia from the future. This was recorded in the now halcyon days of January 2025. Lots of things have changed. Basically everything everywhere has gotten worse. This is the story about the oppression of trans people in the United Kingdom. It is very bleak in many ways. The United Kingdom has gotten worse since then.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

Hey, this is Mia from the future. This was recorded in the now halcyon days of January 2025. Lots of things have changed. Basically everything everywhere has gotten worse. This is the story about the oppression of trans people in the United Kingdom. It is very bleak in many ways. The United Kingdom has gotten worse since then.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

Hey, this is Mia from the future. This was recorded in the now halcyon days of January 2025. Lots of things have changed. Basically everything everywhere has gotten worse. This is the story about the oppression of trans people in the United Kingdom. It is very bleak in many ways. The United Kingdom has gotten worse since then.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the definition of sex in the Equality Act of 2010 is, quote, binary and is decided by, quote, biological sex.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the definition of sex in the Equality Act of 2010 is, quote, binary and is decided by, quote, biological sex.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the definition of sex in the Equality Act of 2010 is, quote, binary and is decided by, quote, biological sex.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

So yeah, I first became aware of what was going on independently. I was working with Alejandra Caraballo, the clinical instructor of Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard. She's a friend of mine and we worked together on some decks. She and Ira and some other people were talking about the horrific waitlists going on with the NHS. It's terrible there. I mean, not even just for trans stuff.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

So yeah, I first became aware of what was going on independently. I was working with Alejandra Caraballo, the clinical instructor of Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard. She's a friend of mine and we worked together on some decks. She and Ira and some other people were talking about the horrific waitlists going on with the NHS. It's terrible there. I mean, not even just for trans stuff.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

So yeah, I first became aware of what was going on independently. I was working with Alejandra Caraballo, the clinical instructor of Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard. She's a friend of mine and we worked together on some decks. She and Ira and some other people were talking about the horrific waitlists going on with the NHS. It's terrible there. I mean, not even just for trans stuff.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

There's probably millions of reports of people having to wait months to get essential health care. Some people have died just from their conditions being on the waitlist. We had both stumbled upon some old news reports from years prior about trans kids who had unfortunately committed suicide as a result of not getting the essential help they needed on the wait list.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

There's probably millions of reports of people having to wait months to get essential health care. Some people have died just from their conditions being on the waitlist. We had both stumbled upon some old news reports from years prior about trans kids who had unfortunately committed suicide as a result of not getting the essential help they needed on the wait list.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

There's probably millions of reports of people having to wait months to get essential health care. Some people have died just from their conditions being on the waitlist. We had both stumbled upon some old news reports from years prior about trans kids who had unfortunately committed suicide as a result of not getting the essential help they needed on the wait list.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

These stories were not talked about in the media at all. They got one art mentioning what happened to them. And then that was it. So we started to investigate it. She was compiling a spreadsheet of everything she could find, every news report of kids who experienced this. I was pitching help and contribute to that spreadsheet some.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

These stories were not talked about in the media at all. They got one art mentioning what happened to them. And then that was it. So we started to investigate it. She was compiling a spreadsheet of everything she could find, every news report of kids who experienced this. I was pitching help and contribute to that spreadsheet some.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

These stories were not talked about in the media at all. They got one art mentioning what happened to them. And then that was it. So we started to investigate it. She was compiling a spreadsheet of everything she could find, every news report of kids who experienced this. I was pitching help and contribute to that spreadsheet some.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

And then right around the same time, the director then of the Good Law Project, a civil rights organization that does a lot of legal stuff in the United Kingdom. His name is Jolyon Mogham. Apologize if I mispronounce that. He came out with a Twitter thread. Revealing, and this was very suddenly, he hadn't contacted anyone about this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

And then right around the same time, the director then of the Good Law Project, a civil rights organization that does a lot of legal stuff in the United Kingdom. His name is Jolyon Mogham. Apologize if I mispronounce that. He came out with a Twitter thread. Revealing, and this was very suddenly, he hadn't contacted anyone about this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

And then right around the same time, the director then of the Good Law Project, a civil rights organization that does a lot of legal stuff in the United Kingdom. His name is Jolyon Mogham. Apologize if I mispronounce that. He came out with a Twitter thread. Revealing, and this was very suddenly, he hadn't contacted anyone about this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

He just kind of posted it right when he got enough of a story and everything. He revealed that he was talking to a couple whistleblowers within the NHS about what was going down. And not only did he talk to some whistleblowers, but he also gained some independent evidence from himself, his own investigation, from meeting minutes from officials in the NHS.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 184

He just kind of posted it right when he got enough of a story and everything. He revealed that he was talking to a couple whistleblowers within the NHS about what was going down. And not only did he talk to some whistleblowers, but he also gained some independent evidence from himself, his own investigation, from meeting minutes from officials in the NHS.

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